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The state pension system is unfair. Reeves is right to change it

10 September 2024

10:57 PM

10 September 2024

10:57 PM

Rachel Reeves is cutting £1.4 billion of pensioner welfare payments with her winter fuel payment means-test. It sounds like a big number, but it’s not.

£152 billion is a big number. That’s the total value of welfare payments to pensioners in 2024/25. It’s more than we spend on the NHS. Taking the £1.4

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